Jered Weaver had a 2.41 ERA and finished second in the AL Cy Young voting in 2011, creating the difficult task of repeating that success this year.

He missed some time because of injury in 2012, but led the big leagues with a .265 opponent on-base percentage.

Weaver relied less on his fastball, throwing it just 56.3 percent of the time compared to 61.7 percent last year. Opponents hit just .196 off his fastball as they saw it less.